The Therapeutic Effects of Barkley's Parenting Management Program for Taiwanese School-Aged Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Overview

The purpose of this study is to explore the therapeutic effects of Barkley's parenting management program for Taiwanese school-aged children with ADHD. The investigators hypothesized that Barkley's parenting management program might empower the parents' competence to manage their school-aged children's ADHD-related disturbing behaviors as its previously-proven effects for parents and their preschool-aged children with ADHD.

Participants will be recruited from the child psychiatric clinics of NTUH-Yunlin branch and will include 30 school children with ADHD, their parents and teachers. The Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-epidemiology version will be adopted to confirm the diagnosis of ADHD. The child participants will received assessments of the Conner's Continuous Performance Test, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-4th edition. We use ADHD symptoms, children't wellbeing, parent-child relationship, parent's competence and parenting stress as the outcome indices of therapeutic effects.Research instruments employed include CBCL, SNAP-IV, Parental Bonding Instrument, The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale, Chinese Health Questionnaire, Parenting Stress Index, Short Form, Multidimensional student's life satisfaction scale and Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children.

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